Stanley Rosen

The immediate point is this. Nothing lies “beyond” philosophy for Hegel, because it is the task of philosophy to explain the structure of totality.

Plato interprets “not” to mean “other” or, more abstractly, “otherness.” To say that the cow is not brown is then in fact to mean that the cow has some other color than brown.

Pure being cannot possess any determinations whatsoever, for then it would no longer be pure. That is, it would be some other category, such as becoming or existence.

since to say that being is one is to mention two things, being and unity.

The difference between being and nothing is the dimensionality of the continuum; the sameness of being and nothing is its seamlessness.

Becoming is not dissolution; it is the continuum within which dissolution and regeneration recur forever.

“Becoming is an unceasing unrest that sinks down into a tranquil result” (100)

“Dasein emerges from becoming. It is the simple Einssein of being and nothing” (103)

The reality of finite being is its manifestation or externalization of infinite being, i.e., spirit.

it is non-Hegelian to refer to being as composed of essences and attributes or properties.